Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is inviting opposition leader and self-declared interim president Juan Guaido to sit down with him and have a “face-to-face conversation.”
“Let’s talk. Let’s talk about the problems of the country and the solutions. Politics is not a child’s game,” Maduro said during an interview with the Spanish television show Salvados.
The interview was taped last week and broadcast Sunday.
At one point, the interviewer, Jordi Evole, picked up the telephone and called Guaido and Maduro said he would talk with him right then and there. But the call went to a voice mailbox that was full and not taking messages.
Maduro said Guaido “should think about what he is doing. He’s a young man with a lot of years of fight ahead. He shouldn’t hurt the country anymore. He should stop the strategy of a coup and stop simulating a presidency in which nobody elected him.”
Maduro told the Spanish show that the international media and foreign embassies are the ones spreading the idea of a “parallel government” in Venezuela and said it “doesn’t exist in reality.” Maduro said President Donald Trump is “making mistakes” and is going to wind up with blood on his hands.